opening (one's mouth) wide; saying "aah"; crying loudly; wailing; bawling
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
boy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
and yet; though; when; in spite of
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
in this way; thus; such; uh...
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage